Astronomers Royal Records. Royal Greenwich Observatory

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Astronomers Royal Records .
Royal Greenwich Observatory .
Observations of John Flamsteed, Edmund Halley
and James Bradley
1675-1764
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Estimated time required
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Starting time for filming :
September 1968
Estimated number of reels :
25
Records to be filmed :
see description below of 89 volumes
Cost of completed project :
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Description of the Records
The material to be filmed consists of the papers of the Astronomers Royal
kept at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Castle, which has been
designated a place of deposit for these Public Records . The first part of the
project' concerns the records of Flamsteed, Halley and Bradley and covers the
period 1671 to 1765, including a small portion of the records of Bliss . The
project will be continued at a later date to include the remainder of Bliss's
records, and those of Nevil Maskelyne (1765-1811), John Pond (1811-1835), and George
Biddell Airy (1835-1881) . The Board of Longitude papers have already been filmed .
The records are sufficiently complete to be representative of the work of
the Royal Observatory from its foundation in 1675 by King Charles II . The
Observation Books of the earlier Astronomers Royal were regarded as personal
.property and consequently disposed of by their executors, but most of these have
The personal correspondence contains
been recovered by purchase or donation .
serious gaps, but again, Flamsteed's papers y for example, were pnrohascd by the
Board of Longitude in 1771, and deposited at the Royal Observatory_
Description of
the Records
1 . John Flamsteed
(1675-1719) .
1
His records comprise a comprehensive collection of observation and
computation books, catalogues, and notes on the day to day running of the
Royal Observatory . The private and official correspondence includes material
relating to the publication of his astronomical results . The collection
numbers 76 volumes .
2 . Edmond Halle.
(1720-174-2)
Halley's work is represented by a relatively small number of observation
ahd computation books, but there are many references to him in Flamsteed's
papers . There are 13 volumes of his papers .
-Cost of completed project :
21y
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The records of each Astronomer Royal may be purchased separately at a
cost of £5 per reel,
_., ~^- _ °t--~
The material to be filmed consists of the papers of the Astronomers Royal
kept at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Castle, which has been
designated a place of deposit for these Public Records . The first part of the
project' concerns the records of Flamsteed, Halley and Bradley and covers the
period 1671 to 1765, inoluains a mma11 portion of the records of Bliss . The
project will be continued at a later date to include the remainder of Bliss's
records, and those of Nevil Maskelyne (1765-1811), John Pond (1811-1835), and George
Biddell Airy (1835-1881). The Board of Longitude papers have already been filmed .
The records are sufficiently complete to be representative of the work of
the Royal Observatory from its foundation in 1675 by King Charles II . The
Observation Books of the earlier Astronomers Royal were regarded as personal
property and consequently disposed of by their executors, but most of these have
been recovered by purchase or donation . The personal correspondence contains
serious gaps, but again, Flamsteed's paper's, for example, were prrrrhaspd by the
Board of Longitude in 1771, and deposited at the Royal Observatory .
1 . John Flamsteod,(1675-1719) .
His records comprise a comprehensive collection if observation and
computation books, catalogues, and notes on the day to day running of the
Royal Observatory . The private and official correspondence includes material
relating to the publication of his astronomical results . The collection
numbers 76 volumes .
2. Edmond Halleyy ( 1720-1742)
Halley's work is represented by a relatively small number of observation
ahd computation books, but there are many references to him in Flamsteed's
papers . There are 13 volumes of his papers .
3. James Bradley (1742-1762)
The most important part of Bradley's papers are his observation books
(of the quadrants, transit telescope and zenith sector), and star catalogues .
Almost no correspondence survives . . The 46 volumes of his papers include
a very small amount of the work of his successor NATHANIEL BLISS (1762-1764) .
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Observations : minutes of first notes of observations, with the Sextant, 1676-1679
written by Flamsteed and several others .
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Observations : continued from RGO 1/1 . First notes of Sextant
observations in Flamsteed's and several others' hands .
RGO 1/2
RGO 1/3
Observations: continued from RGO 1/2 •-"Libri Tertii Obser vationum
~'1684-1689 (1705,
'pars prior •" First notes of the Sextant observations, in Flamsteed's and 1
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several others' hands . • . .
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RGO 1/4
Observations : "Fixanun Planetar unique Observationes Arcu Murali ."
1689-1691 1711
First notes of observations with the Mtual Aro. .. .
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• RGO 1/5
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Observations : continued from RGO 1/4 . "Diarium Observationum
Coelestium" First notes of observations with the Mural Arc .
1691-1694
'Observations : continued fromRGO1/5 ."DiariumObservationum
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Astronomicanim Coelestium" First notes of Mural Arc observations ;
RGO1/6
1694-1698
mainly in the hands of S Clowes and J Hodgson but Flatnsteed's
;
handwriting also appears :'
Observations: continued from RGO 1/6 . "Diarium Observationum
• RGO 1 /7_ Coelestium First notes of Mural Arc observations mainly in the
hand of J Hodgson but Flamsteed's hand also appears . . . .
RGO 1/8
• RGO 1/9
Correspondence : "Excerpts Astronomica ex Epistolis D Gulielmi
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Gascoignii ad D Gulielmum Crabtreum et huius responsis", excerpts
from correspondence of Gascoigne and Crabtree. . . .
1638-1642
instruments, made at Greenwich .
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1671-1676
1676 1677:
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Observations : compilation of observations; untitled, by Flamsteed In
1666-1677/8
Flamsteed's hand and that of T Srmth .
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• RGO1/13 Observations :~compilation of observations in Flamsteed's hand
Untitled
RGO 1/14
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RGO 1/12
1698-1702 1708
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Observations : first notes of observations with the Mural Arc in the
hands ofFlamsteed and J Crosthwaite.
• RGO 1/10 Observations compilation' of observations made at Greenwich and at
the Tower with Jonas Moore's instruments . . . •
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1679-1684 (1716
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hand and that of J Crosthwaite .
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1679-1680
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• RGO I/15 were with RGO 1/16 and RGO ; /17 called "Apogapha" by
1689-1693 (17 6
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given no single title by Flamsteed . . . .
1676-1680
• RGO1/19
Observations : compilation of observations made with the Sextan
given no title by Flamsteed. Mainly in Flamsteed's'liand:-
1676-1681
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'LunaeObservationes Bn t"nniceRegtae
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RGO 1/21
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RGO 1/23 chiefly with the Mural Arc : related calculations' placesthus ` '
1689-1704 (1719)
deduced are given : : . .
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A compilation of observational material and' deductions' concerning th
fixed stars . Entitled"Fixarum culmmationes etMend naeaverhce •.
RGO 1/24 distantiae (cum declination-ibps rode deductis) e : oto-collo ° '
1689-1694
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RGO 1/25
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mainly of places of fixed stars
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1683-1714
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A collection of three notebook&and some. oo sheets
RGO 1/27 stellar positions m J Hodgson's,and J Crosthwaites :handwnting, with
motes by Flamsteed
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RGOI/28
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catalogues . In various hands with some alteratib b ~Flainsteed.
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• RGO 1/29', A collection oftbree notebooks containing dialogues ofstars : in
zodiacal constellations . In various lands including Flamsteed's .='
1717-1719
1690-1719
111690-1699
"Claudii Prolemaei Re aril ' ' ositio constellationum sive Fixarum ! .
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• RGO 1/31 Part of "Fixarum Catalogus Britanmcus", wi 'addthons and corrections some
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possibly in Flamsteed s hand.
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;A collection of foul note books •containm~Fkunsteed`" tob
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contains a treatise on navigation a.fragment of tr atise on ancient
astronomy. . . .
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RGO 1/33 No description available'
: 1712-1715
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21667-1708
• RGO 1/34 Letters : from Abraham Sharp to Flamsteedwith some of the onnlly enclosed , 1701-1719
astronomical and mathematical notes
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•
.A guardbook of papers relating tathe,printmg of Flamsteed's results : including
letters from and drafts of, Flamsteed's letters to the "Referees" and drafts of
RGO 1/35 various statements about the histc'' of the .Obsevato Fhimsteed'spartiii the 1675-c1717dispute over printing; copies of orders relating to the establishing of the
Observatory are also included
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A guardbook of letters received by Flamsteed,' .withsomedrafts of replies and
RGO 1/36 some copies of both . Correspondents were~mainlyuithe Fnp)tsh provinces, b
there are some from abroad . . . .
671-1725
A guardbook of letters received by Flamsteed from coir'e'
ndentss- 1
• RGO 1/37 travellers James Pound and Henry Stanyan ; ;scienhstsStephen Grayand Samuel
or'411674 1719
Molyneux ; and several people connected with Flarasteed's livingoofBUrstow
other property .; _
lectures as deputy to Dr Pope at :Gresham College, '
, Flamsteed's drafts ofhis
• RGO 1/38 between 1681 April 27 and 1684,November,with a contents list givin- lecture
x1681-1864
numbers and Flanhteed's a inati
"De Sole 1694 et Fixis 1695" containing drafts of several ; treatises on th
• RGO 1/39 Earth's motion and work on the .fxed stars, with other notes and calculations
1694-1711
chiefly planetary. . . .
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• RGO 1 /40 A collection of mathematical treatises and calculations .calledby Flamtee
"Miscella nea Mathematica autor e J F. . •..
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from journals o
voyages, and other work on the latitudes ofyplaces
me copies of others
RGO 1/41 observations, especiallyof comets ; coptesof letters mainly from TGaswell on
mathematical emes, an no es - om various sources on a -wide range of
subjects, including atmospheric •reft ctions and ballistics . -
1671-1705
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© RGO 1/42 not primarily a letter book as was formerly thought ; it has beenn re-foliated
- ''1674-accordingly. . .:
A letter-book containing copies of letters, a few in Flamsteed's hand including
11 RGO 1/43 material obtained from Henry Oldenburg, especially letters from Hevelius and J 1676-1679
.D Cassini. . . .
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'A collection of treatises, on solar theory, optics and other . subjects with a few _
miscellaneous notes, all in Flamsteed's hand including rough calculations,
RGO 1/44
quotations from the book of Job and a list of payments to a woman for her
clothes .
1674-1691 .
"Liter Collect observatlonum solarium 1667 . Epistola de parallaxi Martis ."
With notes on others' solar and lunar data and Flamsteed's own planetary and
RGO 1/45
predictive data ; this volume was also used for miscellaneous notes and rough
calculations . . . .
1667-1692
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A compilation of tables, for exampl
-. . the nonagesiuhal, Jupiter's satellites
mathematical functions ; "Ascentiones'Rec e`Horanae'' r->
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; . front cover and Liber Tabularum", :b the, compiler
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"A collection of eleven note books containing lunar and planetary calculations
and tables. Some are in Flainsteed's hand. ..Y,
(c1663)-1705
Three books of tables numbered'85 65
, and 83 by Flamsteed that are stitched '
together . 85 contains solar and lunar places; tables and calculations of Jupiter's 1686-1707
motion and solar places . . . .
A collection of ten
d A-K„ containing tables and relat d
notebooks labelled
0 RGO 1/50 ma ers .
1667=1714
0 RGO 1/51
"Liber Supputationum" =solar ; lunar, plane-_ and stellar
computations ; there are
onsunspotsand rrefraction and the
calibration of a Sextant.
'1676-1700
0 RGO 1/52
"Liber Supputationum " A book of calculations : covering the, mets f
1680-1,,li. . tar and solar eclipse data and a,table ofrefrachon& .
11680-1684
0 RGO 1/53
A book of calculations and tables given -no title by-Flamsteed Much o
volume is in Flamsteed's hand -but not all ofthe .tables '
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1683-1690
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A book of calculations, lunar,stellar and planetary tables an observations .
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RGO 1/54
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RGO 1/55
"Calculations 1696", containing calculations :
fixed stars and planets
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RGO 1/56
A book of lunar and planetary calculations .and tables,-with some .work .on the
IM to;L
Sun . Most of the volume is in
ity
1703-1719.
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RGO 1 /57
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calculations an i some planetary] calculations
1699-1711'
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RGO1/58
'A book of planetary and solar observationsd
andcalculationsrmcluditiga opy
of obseivations for 1679-80. .
1705-1717
Planetary and lariat calculations in ei sections mar
separately paginated by F_ lamstee d .-4
1705
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RGO 1/60
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1683-1705,
There are also tables of refraction and 'a conversion. table for the scale of an 1689-1698
instrument
tables relating to the Moon, 1683-1702
threeset&,of lunar
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Lunar and some planetary calculations in eight sections `marked volumes
9-16: a continuation of RGO 1/59,-in the same hind and forn (though without "1705-1709
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A collection of notebooks, separately paginated by Flamsteed (in .
places). The notebooks contain lunar, planetary andstellar
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calculations and tables ; parts are in Flamsteed's hand and that off .
Hodgson also appears.
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RGO 1/62
A collection ofnotebooks labelled A-G, containing stellar, lunar,
and planetary observations and calculations . . . .
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RGO 1/63
A collection of nine notebooks containing "Mr Lee's" calculations
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1696-(c 1700)
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in various hands, including Flamsteed's and J Hodgson's .
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A collection of nine notebooks containing lunar ; planetary and
RGO 1/64 stellar observations and calculations by Isaac Wolferman and
' ?61707-. 1711
Joseph Crosthwaite. . ..
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,A collection of ten notebooks containing lunar, planetary and '
RGO 1/65 stellar calculations by Flamsteed and Abraham Ryley, and
including a copy of a letter from Flamsteed to Halley . . . .
1667-1718
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Subsidiary tables of distances of the ecliptic from the pole in
RGO 1/66 degrees of right ascension. Flanrsteed's handwriting appears with
J Hodgson's and others' . . . .
1694-1695
(c1681)-1711
A collection of fourteen note-books labelled A-O; some are
• RGO 1/67 copies but some are original treatises on various subjects in
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1607-1704
astronomy, mechanics and geometry . . . .
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A collection of ten notebooks labelled AAK, probably grouped
RGO 1/68 together by Baily, including copies of works by J Horrocks and
other treatises
• RGO 1/69 Bound-together by Baily as "Various Fragments" in random
order, uow rear ranged mto sections A-F and refolw<«t
(1650)-1706 -
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i,the hand suggests early
work on .'PersPectiv e "_The hand and autho r are. unidentified_ :'
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RGO 1/70
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A calfbotind volume, companion to RGO 1/70, containing
RGO 1/71 "Optical or Horizontal Perspective" . The hand and author, are
unidentified, but are identical to that in RGO 1/70 . _ ' ' :
the hand suggests early
teenth cen
Duplicates of figures 12 and 13 as printed in the "Doctrine of the ,
• RGO 1/72 Sphere", with some notes and calculations added in Flanssteed's
1681c1690
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RGO 1/73 Nuremberg and copy of work of Christopher-Arnold of . -- -1693,1690
Sommerfield: . . .
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"Historiae Coelestis pars prior sive Stellaruri Fix
Catalogus
Britannicus" an unfinished draft of Fla'msteed's stellar catalogue
RGO 1/74,
jl(c1690 1701
in the hands of several of his assistants with additions ih his own r
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ROD 1 /75 contents list, in his hand, of seven treatises on mathematical and .
astronomical subjects.
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Observations and calculations primarily on the transits of the planets, 1719
April l l th to 1724 August 7th - written in Latin. . . .
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:'1719-1724
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Observations and calculations primarily on`the transits of the planets between
1724 1727
' 1724 August 8th and 1727 March 19t1L, e .
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11727 March 19th and:1734
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Observations and calculations primarily on .thearanstiisof theplanetsbetwee
1734 October 7th and 1739 Dec embei31st
1734-1739
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Observations and computations of the Moonwith laws to ftnd ;the .generation
of a parabola and associated sketches and equations
1623-1693
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' Observations and calculations on.the Moon's positi n .
1677-1724,
Observations and calculations onithe .Moon's position .
1702 1734 :
+Observations and calculations .onalie Moon'sposition chiefly .dividediinto two
,
1683-1728
periods: 1690 July 11th to 1694 January :7th. : .
Various calculations and' observations with-tables of the
u Sim, Moon an
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planets . In 1755 Bradley divided'this voliitiie mto lifaws
-'
ofarithmetic and
mathematics. . •• .
1472-•1,725'.
Computations, chiefly on the Moons longitude and appulses of stars, without v
order of time . It includes atable,of,"star positions and a list of the observations 'r 1694-1730,
+ .ofBia_nc_hin_i 1_721-1728 at Rome.
Computations, chiefly of the Moon's longitude :;There is an observation' of a
-2111 .
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,,,,lunar eclipse, 1707~April Sth:
1677-1726
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`A collection of tables, some computedby Halley but mthe hand-wasting of
Jarnes Bradley, divide into four-sections :
1.722-1760
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Reference
Title / Scope and Content
Covering Dates
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory :Astronomers' Royal Papers : Halleyc1680-1767
1719-1724
2/01
RGO 77
Observations and calculations primarily on the transits of the planets, 1719 April 11th to 1724
August 7th - written in Latin . It includes the lunar eclipse of 1722, another eclipse of 1722
observed by D Graham at Fleet Street, London, and a description of a comet observed between
1724 October 10'" and October 13th .
Observations and calculations primarily on the transits of the planets between 1724 August 8th
1724-1727
2/02
RGO 78
and 1727 March 19th . It includes a table to convert the divisions of the Quadrant (96 parts)
into 90 degrees, minutes and seconds . There is also an observationof the occultation of Mars
by the Moon, 1726,
1727-1734
2/03
RGO 79
Observations and calculations primarily on the transits of the planets between 1727 March
19th and 1734 September 30th . It includes the observation of a lunar eclipse, 1729 August 1st .
2/04
RGO 80
Observations and calculations primarily on the transits of the planets between 1734 October
1734-1739
7th and 1739 December 31st.
Observations and computations of the Moon with laws to find the generation of a parabola and
1623-1693
2/05
RGO 81
associated sketches and equations . There are calculations of the Moon's place by the
"Tychowich Theory" and also from Copernicus's observations . Also, there is an undated
account of a comet in Latin from which the trajectory and orbit of Halley's Comet is deduced .
1677-1724
2/06ROD 82Observations and calculations on the Moon's position .
2/07ROO 83Observations and calculations on the Moon's position .
1702-1734
2/08
Observations and calculations on the Moon's position chiefly divided into two periods : 1690
1683-1728
RGO 84
July 11th to 1694 January 7th . 1726 June 29th to 1728 June I8th . There is a computation for
an eclipse of the Sun, 1726 September 14th .
2/09
RGO 85
Various calculations and observations with tables of the Sun, Moon and planets . In 1755
1472-1725
Bradley divided this volume into :
I Laws of arithmetic and mathematics .
2 Elements of the trajectory of different comets .
3 Observations made by Dr Halley at Islington, London
4 Computations on the longitude and latitude of the Moon .
1694-1730
2/10
RGO 86
Computations, chiefly on the Moon's longitude and appulses of stars, without order of time . It
includes a table of star positions and a list of the observations of Bianchini 1721-1728 at
Rome .
2/11
Computations, chiefly of the Moon's longitude. There is an observation of a lunar eclipse,
ROD 87
1707 April 5th .
A collection of tables, some computed by Halley but in the hand-writing of James Bradley,
2/12
RGO 88
divided into four sections . Note : Parts 1, 2, and 3 run into each other . I . Table of observations
for the right ascension of the Moon, 1722 January 13th to 1725 December 4th .
2/13
RGO 89
Miscellaneous works on stars and comets, presented in a folder. It includes :- l . Some results
for the constellation Hercules, and a table of corrections to the observations . 2.Observations
and discovery of the 1723 comet with an account of its position and path through the heavens .
2/14
RGO 89
Printed book of lunar tables ; it includes :- I Tables for the right ascension of the Moon with the
computed error for 1722-1725 inclusive . 2 Tables of the Moon's longitude, 1725-1739 .
Various years have been duplicated and copied and there is a small groery bill .
2/15RGO 89Rough calculations of observations in a pocket note book .
2/16
RGO 89
Various astronomical tables including :- I A letter from John Senex of London, 1715 May
16th, requesting information on a comet and a meeting with Halley . A list of observations and
calculations is on the reverse . 2 Table of the different declinations of the stars in the eclipse .
2/17
RGO 89
Various letters : I Invitation from the Royal Society, 1736
February 4th . 2 Letter from the Office of Ordnance stating the whereabouts of a parcel from
Peru, 1739 October 26th . 3 Notice that there is a package awaiting Dr Halley from Pen, 1739
October 12th .
2/18
RGO 89
Computations, tables, observations and miscellaneous papers in a folder, (19-43 inclusive, are
bound together, in the form of an exercise book) . I Observations of the planets written in
Latin, 1737 May 17th-I 8th . 2 Observations and calculations for 1739July 23rd-24th .
List of southern stars compiled by Halley, an algebraic equation and observations and faults in
2/19
the telescope, .
1677-1726
1722-1760
1723-1748
1722-1739
1736
1715
1736-1739
1581-1767
1732-1733
,R4
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Title / Scope and Content
Covering Dates
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory : Astronomers' Royal Papers :Bradley and Blissc1700-1804
3/1
RGO 90
Observations : transits of major stars including adjustments to the telescope and observational
1743
method . There is a calculation to discover the difference between the meridians through
Oxford and Greenwich and Sherboume and Greenwich, 1743 July 22nd .
RGO 91
1744-1746
3/2
_
method . A description is provided of the occultation of Jupiter by the Moon, 1744 June 6th .
3/3
RGO 92
1746-1749
method . Contains a supplement on lunar eclipses 1748 .1751 .
3/4
RGO 93
1749-1750
method . Mentions the earthquake shock felt in London, 1750 February 8th at 8 .23 am and has
some other transit observations for the period 1754-1755 at the back of the book .
3/5
RGO 94
Observations: transits of major stars including adjustments to the telescope and observational
1750-1755
method . The volume has a brief resume of adjustments and measurements, 1750-1755, on the
inside of the cover and an observation of a lunar eclipse, 1750 December 2 n°
3/6
RGO 95
1755-1758
melhod . The volume contains the lunar eclipse of 1757 July 30 and a list of comparative
observations to be made with Mr Maskelyne at St Helena for 1761 and 1762 .
RGO 96
Observations : transits of major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope and observational
1758-1762
3/7
method .
1743-1744
3/8
RGO 97
Observations, using a Quadrant, of major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method . Working copy . Contains an account of Bliss's observations of Jupiter at
Oxford, 1743 May 21st .
RGO 98
1744-1747
3/9
observational method . This volume contains three similar descriptions of the Quadrant and
experiments performed upon it, corrections to the Quadrant calculated in 1746, a grocery bill
for the week beginning 1743 March 10th, a rough hand table of variations to the Quadrant,
1743-1744, and a small list of observations taken in 1722 and 1725 .
1747-1753
3/10
RGO 99
observational method. There is a brief history of repairs and alterations to the Old Quadrant,
1742-1753, inside the front cover.
1750-1757
3/11
RGO 100
Observations, using the Quadrants, of major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method . Separated into two parts : the observations from 1750-1753 were taken
on the New Quadrant, those from 1753-1758 on the Old Quadrant .
3/12
BOO 101
Observations, using the New Quadrant, of major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope
1753-1757
3/13
RGO 102
1758-1762
3/14
RGO 103
Observations, using the New Quadrant, of transits of major stars, 1762-1765 ; also transits of
1762-1765
major stars, 1764-1765, as observed by Mr Charles Green, assistant to Professor Bliss .
Included are notes on adjustments to the telescope and observational method and compiled
tables for the following : i) "Daily Rate of the Transit Clock, Deduced from the Transits of the
Fixed Stars, 1762-1764" ; "Calculated Mean Times of the Moon's passing the Meridians, 17621765" (added to the volume in 1861) ; "Apparent Right Ascensions of the Planets, 1762-1765"
and the lunar eclipse of 1764 March 17th .
1743
3/15
RGO 104
method . There is a calculation to discover the difference between the meridians through
Oxford and Greenwich and Sherbourne and Greenwich, 1743 July 22nd .
3/16
RGO 105
1744-1746
method . A description is provided of the occultation of Jupiter by the Moon, 1744 June 6th .
3/17
RGO 106
1746-1749
method .
RGO 107
1749-1750
3/18
method . Mentions the earthquake shock felt in London, 1750 February 8th at 8 .23 am .
RGO 108
1750-1755
3/19
method . Contains a brief resume of adjustments and measurements, 1750-1755, on the inside
of the cover . Observations of lunar eclipses, 1750 December 2nd and 1751 November 21st .
3/20
RGO 109
1755-1758
method . It contains the lunar eclipse of 1757 July 30th and a list of comparative observations
to be made with Mr Maskelyne at St Helena for 1761 and 1762 .
3/21BOO 110 Observations : transits of major stars including adjustments to the telescope and observational1758-1762
1743-1744
3/22
RGO I I I
Observations, using a Quadrant, of major stars including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method .
1744-1747
3/23
RGO 112
Observations, using a Quadrant, of Major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method . This volume contains three similar descriptions of the Quadrant (two in
rough hand) and experiments performed upon it, corrections to the Quadrant calculated in
1746, two grocery bills for the weeks beginning 1743 February 18th and March 10th and a
table of observations between 1746 and 1747
3/24
RGO 113
observational method . There is a brief history of repairs and alterations to the Old Quadrant,
1742-1753, inside the front cover .
3/25
RGO 114
Observations, using Quadrants, of major stars ; including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method . Separated into two parts : the observations from 1750-1753 were taken
on the New Quadrant, those from 1753-1758 on the Old Quadrant .
3/26
RGO 115
3/27
RGO 116
Observations, using the New Quadrant, of major stars; including adjustments to the telescope
3/28
RGO 117
Observations : transits of major stars 1762-1765, including adjustments to the telescope and
observational method and also transits of major stars observed by Mr Charles Green, 17641765 . There is an account of the lunar eclipse, 1764 March 17th .
3/29
RGO 118
Observations, using the New Quadrant, of major stars, 1762-1765 ; including adjustments to
the telescope and observational method, and also Quadrant observations of major stars, 17641765, taken by Mr Charles Green .
3/30
RGO 120
Observations made with the Zenith Sector, received by Nevil Maskelyne, 1770 March 1 I th,
from Mr W Wales . It includes a Latin piece on the orbits of Jupiter's satellites and contains
adjustments to the telescope and observational method .
3/31
RGO 12t
A collection of handwritten notes ; they include : I A note dated 1734 June 28th, on the errors
of Dr Halley's Quadrant from experiments performed by Bradley . 2 A note dated 1735 July
26th, correcting the errors of the Quadrant and the previous year's over-estimated calculations .
3/32
RGO 122
Various loose papers in a file. They include : I Bradley's table of aberration of certain fixed
stars 1746-1753 . 2 Adjustments made to the telescope 1745 July 18th . 3 Observations made of
Wanstead Tower and St Pants 1746 . 4 Various unprovenanced calculations, some for the
period 1689-1691 .
3/33
RGO 123
Calculations relating to observations of the Moon . It includes a diagram of those arcs used in
Bradley's calculations.
3/34RGO 124Ecliptic tables of Jupiter's satellites compiled by Dr Bradley .
3/35
RGO 125
Sun's mean right ascension and longitude compared with some tables, 1743-1758 . Also a table
of mean right ascensions of stars, 1758 .
3/36
RGO 126
A catalogue of stars as observed by John Flamsteed, updated to 1744 . This has an index to the
constellations at the back of the book . It also has a table of lunar parallaxes . Fine copy.
3/37
RGO 127
"Index to the days on which every observation of each star, with the Quadrants, was made by
Bradley : or Working Catalogue marked off for the Quadrant observation Oh to 12h" .
3/38
RGO 128
"Index to the days on which every observation of each star, with the Quadrants, was made by
Bradley : or working catalogue marked off for the Quadrant observation 12h to 24h" .
3/39
RGO 129
"Index to the days on which every observation of each star, with the Transit was made by
Bradley : or working catalogue marked off for the Transit observations Oh to 12h" .
3/40
RGO 130
"Index to the days on which every observation of each star, with the Transit was made by
Bradley : or working catalogue marked off for the Transit observations 12h to 24h" .
3/41
RGO 131
Computations to ascertain the Moon's position by observations and to find the apparent
diameter of the Moon . Also, rules to compute the aberration of any star .
3/42
RGO 132
A collection of tables : i Refraction tables ; Lord Macclesfield's observations . ii Reduction of
micrometer . iii Tables of Jupiter's satellites . (in Latin) iv Lunar tables ( in Latin) v Solar
tables . v i Lunar tables . vii Tables of the nonagesimal .
3/43
RGO 134
Miscellaneous observations : this is a bound volume of calculations, manuscripts and letters
from 1723 to 1804 which has been divided up into eight sections, these being : I Notes on the
handwriting of Bradley's manuscripts . i Explanation of observation code for 1743, A - Other
observers .
3/44
RGO 135
Various works and correspondence for the period 1764-1771 .
These are as follows :- l Eclipse of the Moon 1764 March I st .
2 Eclipse of the Sun 1764 April 1st .
3 Observations on the transits of Venus 1769 ; including an eclipse of the Sun observed at
Gibraltar 1769, and a bill for crockery .
3/45
Observations made with the moveable brass Quadrant 1755 December 5th to 1760 December
27th, and with the Transit Instrument from 1760 July 31st to 1763 December 4th . There are
notes on the observational technique and clocks employed, rough calculations and a drawing
of a head and a fly leaf entitled "Cygnea Cantio" by William White 1595 .
1755-1763
1747-1753
1750-1757
17571758-1762
1762-1765
1762-1765
1749-1760
1734-1756
1742-1758
1752-1762
1700-1739
1743-1758
1744
1753-1757
1753-1757
1750-1756
1750-1756
1742-1744
1745
1723-1804

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